I Scream for Ice Cream
Ecclesiastes 5:18-20 My soon-to-be-80-year-old father-in-law–and, wow, wasn’t that a lot of hyphens?!–enjoys him some ice cream. He’ll eat it, a quart at a time, twice a day. His wife does…
Tuning the Christian's heart to God's perfect pitch
Ecclesiastes 5:18-20 My soon-to-be-80-year-old father-in-law–and, wow, wasn’t that a lot of hyphens?!–enjoys him some ice cream. He’ll eat it, a quart at a time, twice a day. His wife does…
Ecclesiastes 5:16-17 Phil is dying. That’s the short form of the story. We’d heard that this man, whom we’ve known for about 10 years, had experienced some serious health problems,…
Ecclesiastes 5:13-15 Here’s a man with more money than Davey Crockett, as Forrest Gump put it. His money could, apparently, buy nearly anything, at least if the allegations against him…
Ecclesiastes 5:10-12 For some reason, I’m hearing Johnny Cash singing: How many times have you heard someone say“If I had his money, I could do things my way.”But little they…
Ecclesiastes 5:8-9 There’s a house in Jackson County, Missouri, the house where I grew up. On the county tax rolls, it is recorded as a three-bedroom home and taxed accordingly.…
Ecclesiastes 5:6-7 The cookies on the plate looked exceptionally good. Frankly, my bar for good-looking cookies is rarely all that high, but on one Thursday night, as I attended an…
Ecclesiastes 5:3-5 Bo doesn’t say much. He’s standing here in my office right now, and not a single word has passed his mouth. This is probably a good thing, since…
Ecclesiastes 5:1-3 Clarence used to go around the auditorium of our church shaking hands with every single person he saw, but we all knew what his real objective was. He…